Analytic study of orthogonally polarized solitons interacting in highly birefringent optical fibers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 636-642

  Kutz, J Nathan ^a,b   Koehler, Steffen D ^a   Leng, L ^a   Bergman, Keren ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

FILTERED PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD; GAUSSIAN ANSATZ; HYPERBOLIC SECANT ANSATZ; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS; RUNGE-KUTTA METHOD;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0031098438     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.000636     Document Type: Article

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